1/16/2008 @ 10:00PM

Hong Kong's 40 Richest

Few stories about Asia written in the past decade stand out as more completely off the mark than those that predicted dire times for Hong Kong after the former British colony’s return to China in 1997. “The Death of Hong Kong,” one prominent U.S. magazine called it.

A little more than decade later, we’re happy to report that the city is thriving and that our inaugural list of the Hong Kong 40 richest consists entirely of billionaires. By contrast, there were only a dozen or so Hong Kong-based billionaires in the middle of the last decade. More …